Ana Bui
AP Comparative Government – C
Ms. Holley
August 31, 2010
Chile Trapped Miners Show More Than Meet the Eyes:
Social Capital, Politics, and Economics; Entry no. 2
During the past month, 33 Chile miners has been trapped and confined in a gold and copper mind, 2300-feet underground. Since a video footage and notes from miners were found to inform [...]

Arrests made in maid’s nail torture, Sri Lankan officials say, no. 2
By Iqbal Athas, For CNN
August 30, 2010
Officials at the Sri Lankan External Affairs Ministry reported that a Saudi employer and his wife were accused of torturing a Sri Lankan housemaid, named Ariyawathie, by hammering nails into her body. Ariyawathie, 49, is a mother of [...]

Long-dormant volcano erupts in Indonesia, no. 1
By the CNN Wire Staff
August 29, 2010
The CNN news reported that in the early morning on the 29th of August, a volcano that had been inactive for more than 400 years erupted in Indonesia. The eruption caused thousands of people to flee their homes. Mount Sinabung in North Sumatra [...]

Ana Bui
Comparative Government – C
Ms. Holley
August 31, 2010
Rape and Bleeding Wounds in Congo
Rape has always been a lamentable issue all over the world. Yet, rape case with the number of victim ranging about 200 has been so rare it is horrifying. On July 30 2010, a group of Rwanda and Congolese armed rebels charged into [...]

A. Vocabulary
1. plummeted
2. nebuliser
3. centigrade
B. Summary
In the 2 articles that I have read, there are a lot of peruvians in present that are suffering from coldness because this shows that the temperature had never went this low before. Especially, the children will gain a huge impact on it because the children are now undergoing malnutrition, [...]

A. Vocabulary

1. garrison – fort
2. spiking – rise/increase sharply
3. rimmed – edged
4. surgical – pertaining to surgery
5. brigade – army
6.debriefing – questioning

B. Summary
As mentioned in the article, Russia has forests that had wildfires and that the average temperature now in Russia is going high since June. There are unexpected [...]

A. Vocabulary
1. strained – affected/produced by effort
2. contingent – dependent for existence, occurrence, etc. for anything uncertain
3. blunt – to weaken a particular force, keenness, etc.. of a particular thing
4. sentiment – opinion
5. shun -  to stay away from a particular thing, such as an object, place, thing, etc…
6. frank – straightforward
7. makeshift – something [...]

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Exit Path   http://armorgames.com/play/5917/exit-path
My Fishbowl  http://apps.facebook.com/happyfishbowl/?lg=zh_TW&ref=bookmarks
My Fishbowl is a feeding fish game is is on facebook. The fish will born some thing and you can sell it for money. You also can steal our friends thing to earn money. I play this game because I like to feed fish. I play [...]

The game is called Exit path, it’s a bout controlling a stickman across the arena without being killed. It has little bit of action an a little bit of Strategies.  And I love this game, it’s really thrilling. It’s not boring at all.  And I had beat the game in 30 mins. But I keep playing [...]

by Librarian by Day
Facebook is making their privacy settings shorter and easier for everyone to use because there had been complains about the privacy settings being too long. But, who wouldn’t complain? Who would want to read through 50 settings with more than 170 different options ? I personally think there is not a lot [...]